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12/9/2008 GreatWolf: Dirty Cities design journal
I'm working on my next game, which currently has the working title of Dirty Cities. This is the game that will let me play The Wire. If you're interested in…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf.

12/9/2008 thelevitator: Blood, Sweat & Steel Playtest Tomorrow Evening
Hi everyone, I'm pretty new here, and I really enjoy this site.  I've been working on my own game for about 6 months now.  It's called "Blood, Sweat & Steel",…
In Playtesting
Participants: thelevitator.

12/9/2008 Rustin: Facilitating Coherent Play and the Shared Agenda
My group recently ended its fourth 4e campaign within the last year or so. I suspect incoherent play caused each attempt to fail. (E.g., People "checking-out" when not spotlighted, lots…
In Actual Play
Participants: Rustin, dindenver, Noon, FredGarber, masqueradeball, Ron Edwards, matthijs, Erudite, Leilond.

12/9/2008 RobNJ: [Misspent Youth] Rule tweak
Right now, I'm running the first (as far as I know) ongoing series of Misspent Youth. This is giving me several ideas for what to do with the final version…
In Robert Bohl Games
Participants: RobNJ.

12/9/2008 Axhead: [DitV] My first town: Gerdenshaw
I would love to get some feed back positive or other wise, so lemme know what you think.  I have some ideas that I will post after the posting the…
In lumpley games
Participants: Axhead, lumpley, Noclue.

12/9/2008 Patrice: Gaming designs without initiative order?
Hi guys. Welcome to my very first message upon The Forge and please accept my apologies if it is misplaced. I'm currently working upon a Gaming-oriented RPG system which I'm…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Patrice, Chronologist, jb.teller4, Marshall Burns, dindenver, VoidDragon, David C, Selene Tan, Lord Skeletor, Noon, SoftNum, JoyWriter, Vulpinoid, ShallowThoughts, Ante, Adam Dray, wheloc, Paul T, contracycle, MatrixGamer.

12/9/2008 lokiare: [New Game System] Monstrosities & Strongholds Looking for play testers
A new fantasy pen & paper role playing game called Monstrosities & Strongholds is looking for play testers. All play testers will receive a free copy of the game upon…
In Connections
Participants: lokiare.

12/9/2008 David C: Measuring Success: How good is good enough?
(I'm going to break this into two parts, at first, will be just the "Play", the second part will be a reflection on a few problems.) I've put a lot…
In Playtesting
Participants: David C, JoyWriter, ShallowThoughts, Erudite.

12/9/2008 KCassidy: Epistolary: The letter writing RPG
So, this is my latest work, an rpg that can be played on the internet over email, simulating a "story told in letters". Questions: 1) Is the play document comprehensible?…
In First Thoughts
Participants: KCassidy, Lachlan, JoyWriter.

12/9/2008 Artanis: [Sorcerer] A Night at the Opera Bizarre
Hey! This is session number three from our on-going Carnival Bizarre game. Last session was about getting involved in the Carnival Bizarre, this session is about taking the bull by…
In Actual Play
Participants: Artanis, Ron Edwards.

12/8/2008 Myrkridia: 1 monkey writing Shakespear on the first attempt?
This is my first post at these forums. Give me a verbal slap on the wrist if I should have introduced myself somewhere before posting. Like lots of other people…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Myrkridia, Eero Tuovinen, Everspinner, Creatures of Destiny.

12/8/2008 Dionysus: [DitV] How many dice?
Howdy.. guess i'm going to succumb and get myself some d4 and d8s (d6 ad d10 i've got plenty of) about how many would i need to play this game?…
In lumpley games
Participants: Dionysus, lumpley.

12/8/2008 otspiii: Inspiration vs. Theft
I've been working on a system meant to emulate shounen-action style manga in my spare time. I've always been fond of the genre's neurotic method of storytelling, which is typified…
In lumpley games
Participants: otspiii, lumpley.

12/8/2008 TomTitTot: [Mechaton] Line of Sight?
A short, stupid question, but... Am I right in thinking that a mech has to at least be visible to their attacker slightly, otherwise they can't attack? Because the text…
In lumpley games
Participants: TomTitTot, rafial, lumpley.

12/7/2008 simonjberger: Gender and Setting
I'll get straight to it. If you read the following as a part of the setting description, how would you react? Woman and Man The Kingdom is a clearly patriarchal…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: simonjberger, Paul Czege, Eero Tuovinen, dindenver, chance.thirteen, Valamir, Brand_Robins, Graham Walmsley.

12/7/2008 Eliarhiman6: [Annalise] questions about the pdf text
Hello! I recently played Annalise, and I wanted to ask some questions about some rules. I am using the page numbers from the pdf edition, the only one I own.…
In ndp design
Participants: Eliarhiman6, Nathan P..

12/7/2008 Eric J. Boyd: [House of Cards] First Playtest of My Heist Game
This last week I got to do the first playtest for House of Cards, a pick-up and play heist game intended for single session play. You can take a look…
In Playtesting
Participants: Eric J. Boyd, Paul T, Ron Edwards, jasonm.

12/7/2008 Khuxan: Teen Doom
I was thinking about a game about doomed teenagers in a horror film-like environment. Here's what I came up with: Exhausting Luck: The PCs have a seemingly inexhaustible pool…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Khuxan, Paul Czege.

12/6/2008 [Kei]: First Thoughts about a game (my game :P)
Hi there, I'm writing here because I'm starting to work on a game and I'm curious to see if the idea about this game could be nice to play, then…
In First Thoughts
Participants: [Kei], John Blaz, God_Boy.

12/6/2008 WyldKarde: Rudimentary Research
Learning from the Forge, I see that a goal is essential to making a decision on the system.  What you want the feature to do is the first question that…
In First Thoughts
Participants: WyldKarde, Ron Edwards, dindenver, Noon.

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12/10/2008 Neil the Wimp: [Bliss Stage] Hot pilot-on-pilot action
Something that came up in our game last night: how do pilots oppose the mission actions of other pilots? The situation was that Jessica, a pilot (played by Robin (a…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Neil the Wimp, Ben Lehman.

12/10/2008 Dionysus: [DitV][IaWA] combinations?
Howdy. This seemed to be the perfect place to ask - as bot these games are by the same great author :) I adore the see/raise mechanics and flow in…
In lumpley games
Participants: Dionysus, David Artman, Filip Luszczyk.

12/10/2008 Dionysus: Holy Dogs!
Well, on reading through the rules some more, I noticed the sorcerors get to have a relationship with "demons". If i were to push the game into more "supernatural" themes,…
In lumpley games
Participants: Dionysus, oliof, Jumanji83, lumpley, David Artman.

12/10/2008 dindenver: [TSOY] Um, is this a problem?
Hi!   I am set to GM this next week, I have myself (SG) and two other players, is that a big enough group to get the full Solar System…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: dindenver, Eero Tuovinen, Paul T, Yokiboy.

12/10/2008 ChrisMcDee: A Wanderer's Romance - Wirework and Drinking Contests
[B][URL=http://"http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddmbxmt_12c3cb9gfk&hl=en"]A Wanderer's Romance[/URL][/B] is a rules-light system built around a setting that gives you a few key points and lets the GM do as he wishes with the rest. It…
In Playtesting
Participants: ChrisMcDee, Ron Edwards, Vulpinoid.

12/10/2008 lumpley: Apocalypse World: Mary and Roark
Apocalypse World was SO FUCKING GOOD last night. Julia's character Mary let Roark and Birdie loose. I can't possibly explain just how good that is to you. But, like, here…
In Playtesting
Participants: lumpley, Meguey, Parthenia, Ron Edwards, Vulpinoid, Ben Lehman, GreatWolf, Artanis, Emily Care.

12/11/2008 Eero Tuovinen: [TSOY 2nd] Name of the game?
Well well, it seems that I'm going to start the actual writing of the TSoY book tonight. A question that's been plaguing me, perhaps somebody has insight for me: Should…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, dindenver, rafial, oliof, Rafu, Rich F, Paul Czege, JTColeman, Graham Walmsley, Brand_Robins, hix.

12/11/2008 Altaem: [PIE] Golden Moments
Looks like my Fallout campaign has come to a close.  Everyone had a really good time, but ultimately it’s been hard assembling the entire group on a regular basis. I’m…
In Playtesting
Participants: Altaem, themaloryman, davidberg.

12/12/2008 Willow: Selling Games at Playcons
Last year at Forge Midwest, we had a 'dealers table' set up for about half an hour, mostly as an afterthought, but it was something that was discussed on and…
In Conventions
Participants: Willow, Wolfen.

12/12/2008 5niper9: [Polaris] We finally arrived at tragedy
I noticed that there are very few Polaris Actual Play threads, so here is my part in changing this: Let's first define the group: We're all between 20 and…
In Actual Play
Participants: 5niper9, Artanis, Ben Lehman.

12/13/2008 whiteknife: [Super Action Now!] A nuclear winter with NO CHIRSTMAS. How sad.
So I was planning on running a game of 3:16 with my group, but then two of them bailed and me and the other two players decided to play some…
In Playtesting
Participants: whiteknife, Marshall Burns, JoyWriter.

12/13/2008 Trevis Martin: Perception and mind sensing
Hi Ron, I have what amounts to a doppelganger demon in a game I'm running.  I know there is a general injunction, both in Sorcerer and in various places on…
In Adept Press
Participants: Trevis Martin, Peter Nordstrand, Ron Edwards, Alan, angelfromanotherpin.

12/13/2008 Rusty: [Zombie Cinema] Survivor
I played a game of Zombie Cinema last night and it was a blast.  There were five players, including the non-roleplayer wife of one of the regular gamers in our…
In Actual Play
Participants: Rusty, Eero Tuovinen.

12/13/2008 Neerttorn: Prescription Drugs, Health and Beauty, plus more
Hi,I bookmarked this site. Thank you for good job! yellow xanax bars xanax pregnancy (edited by VB to remove links)
In First Thoughts
Participants: Neerttorn, Krippler, lumpley.

12/13/2008 Welkerfan: A way to frame shows with a single "star"
I was watching a couple of series from the old Doctor Who, and an idea clicked in my head. It has sometimes been frustrating that a lot of the shows…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Welkerfan, Ron Edwards.

12/13/2008 Eero Tuovinen: [To Playtest] Colonization of Qek
In the new TSOY book I'm going to have these things I call "campaign frameworks", essentially short articles on how to kick up a specific sort of campaign based in…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, JackTheOwner, oliof, dindenver, Sam!, shadowcourt.

12/13/2008 Eero Tuovinen: [TSOY 2nd] Campaign Frameworks
I've explained this to several people during the last couple of months, and it seems I have the concept worked out pretty well now. I'll put the explanation up here,…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, oliof, dindenver.

12/13/2008 otspiii: [Burning Passion] Step By Step Scenario Building
I'm writing a rulebook for a system I'm calling Burning Passion.  Its purpose is to emulate the weird, creative, neurotically-technical, but somehow at the same time completely over the top…
In First Thoughts
Participants: otspiii.

12/14/2008 EarthenForge: [Annalise] When "Rome" meets "The Wire"
This is the first installment of an Annalise game. I tried to include some of the game function to a point. I’ll be happy to go into more detail if…
In Actual Play
Participants: EarthenForge, sirogit, Nathan P..

12/14/2008 greyorm: [eXpendable] Environments and Maps
As a more coherent follow-up to my LJ post about this subject: I've been working on eXpendable here and there, but sadly with much less progress than I would like…
In First Thoughts
Participants: greyorm, Artanis, Vulpinoid, contracycle.

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